"It's really possible!"
The fish-man Huabei said truthfully: "There are often fish-men in our village. Because they can't bear the loneliness of cultivation, they leave the village and never come back."
"This has resulted in fewer and fewer fishmen in our village."
"In order to save this situation, every time we fishmen persuade a monk to stay, the chief elder of the village will give us a treasure as a reward."
"Great Elder?" Chengshuo asked curiously: "Is the Great Elder you just mentioned someone equivalent to the head of the Fishman Village?"
"You can't really be called the village chief." The fish-man Huabei said, "The great elder of our village is a very special being."
"He can't speak, and he never communicates with other fishmen, so he basically doesn't do anything in the village."
"So strictly speaking he is not the village chief."
After hearing what Hua Bei said, Cheng Sheng became even more confused.
He asked further: "Since the Great Elder cannot speak and never communicates with other fishmen, what about the treasure reward you just mentioned?"
The fishman explained: "The Great Elder is different from all us fishmen."
"Although he never communicates with others and doesn't even move much, he has the special ability to spit out treasures out of thin air." Then
"As long as there are fish people who have made certain contributions to the village, then go to the Great Elder. You don't even need to say anything. The Great Elder can only know everything directly and then give you corresponding rewards."
"Furthermore, you can also sell some things you don't want to the Great Elder, such as elixirs and exercises, your cultivation, and even your memories and feelings, and then exchange them for some things you want."
Selling elixirs and exercises, it's easy to understand how to survive.
but.
Before Cheng Huo could say anything, Zhong Ran on the side was surprised and asked: "Can people's memories and emotions be sold? Can the Great Elder take away all people's memories?"
The fish-man Huabei smiled and said: "As the saying goes, hearing is believing and seeing is believing. If you two don't believe it, why don't you come with me to the village to meet the great elder?"
Zhong Ran didn't speak, but looked at each other with Chengshuo.
The latter nodded and said to the fish-man Huabei: "Then I'll ask fellow Taoist to lead the way."
"Please!" Hua Bei nodded and made a 'please' gesture to Chenghuo and Zhong Ran.
Huabei's movements still look quite elegant, but when paired with his huge fish head, they give him an inexplicable and weird feeling.
With this sense of weirdness, Cheng Sheng carefully followed Hua Bei into the fish-man village.
…
At the same time.
The junction between Daliang Kingdom and the Far North.
Thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow drifting.
High in the sky.
A monk wearing an apricot-yellow robe landed on the top of the snow-capped mountain with a sword in his hand.
He walked straight to a snowman sitting cross-legged and said, "Brother Li, how is the situation now?"
"Those six people have already entered the secret realm."
Li Zhuo opened his eyes.
He shook off the snow covering his body and said with a slightly dissatisfied tone: "Brother Yun, why did you come here at this time?"
Yun Rusong, who was wearing an apricot Taoist robe, smiled and said, "Well, there's nothing we can do about it. The officials have something to deal with, so I stayed in Bianjing for one more day, and it's a step too late."
"But don't worry, I've got the stuff."
As Yun Rusong spoke, he took out a bronze mirror from the storage bag on his waist.
He shook the bronze mirror in his hand and continued: "As long as one of the six people who entered the secret realm can successfully break through to the deep dive stage, we will have enough four deep dive monks."
"At that time, we only need to wait until that boy Le Zheng Xunyi ascends the throne, and we will be able to use this 'omnipotent mirror' to reverse the situation of the entire Xuanwu Star in one breath."
"At that time, it is not impossible for you and me to break through to a higher realm."
"Yes," Li Zhuo nodded and said, "If the 'Omnipotent Mirror' can really work, then you and I really have a chance to break through to a higher realm."
"It's just." He said, and suddenly frowned: "I always feel that Xuansi is an unstable factor."
"Ever since he entered Buddhism, he has become very talkative. He has also been obsessed with summoning the descendants of 'Buddha'."
"Anyway, in his own words, he did it for the sake of the world, but who can know his actual purpose?"
"Xuansi is indeed an unstable factor." Yun Rusong agreed: "However, you and I have trained six monks who have the hope of breaking through to the deep dive stage."
"If two of these six people can successfully break through, then we no longer need Xuansi."
"Asking Xuansi to help activate the 'Mirror of Omnipotence' is just a last resort option." Yun Rusong continued: "But if there are other deep dive monks who can step in, I will naturally not do it. Consider him.”
"Just hope you don't need to find Xuansi in the end!"
Li Zhuo said with a worried look on his face: "Now let's see how many of the six people who entered the secret realm can successfully break through to the deep dive stage."
…
Tianshan secret realm.
Swamp area, inside the Murloc Village.
Following Hua Bei, Cheng Sheng and Zhong Ran came to a fish-man hut that looked the most luxurious, also had the largest area and the highest height.
This fish-man hut alone occupies nearly a quarter of the land of the fish-man village.
Moreover, this room is not only built tall, but the doors and windows are also enlarged.
Just like the door of the house, it is more than four meters high and more than two meters wide.
The fish-man Huabei pushed the door open and rushed to Cheng Huo and Zhong Ran: "This house is where the fish-man elders in our village live."
The moment the door of the house was opened, a fat murloc shaped like a hill was seen lying in the corner of the murloc hut.
The fish head of this big fat fishman is a catfish head.
He was currently supporting his fish head with his hands, looking quite contented.
Next to the fat catfish man, there were two burly fish man guards wearing pitch black armor standing on either side.
There were also two slim fish-men who looked like female monks, rubbing the shoulders and legs of the fat catfish man.
But the fat catfish man enjoying all this remained silent.
He just lay there with a thoughtful expression on his face, seemingly uninterested in everything around him.
"Great Elder?"
After entering the hut, the fishman Huabei first cautiously called out the words 'Great Elder'.
The great elder seemed as if he had not heard anything.
The fishman Huabei didn't care much about this, and just continued: "Today, two strangers came to our village."
The great elder still looked thoughtful.
The fish-man Huabei turned around and said to Zhong Ran and Chengshuo: "Both of you, are there any treasures you want to exchange, or are there any treasures you can't use?"
"This is your first time in the village, so according to the rules, you can exchange some items that you don't need with the great elder."
"Or maybe it's memory"
Hua Bei reminded: "For example, some memories that are not very good to you and you don't want to recall, or some regrets in life."
"These can all be forgotten."
"For another example, if your character is too indecisive, then this part of your not-so-good character can be exchanged with the great elders."
A fish-man elder who can exchange everything, even memories and emotions.
I have to say that this Tianshan secret realm is exactly as Li Zhuo described, with great opportunities hidden almost everywhere.
Moreover, these opportunities are far from comparable to other ancient immortal ruins in Daliang Kingdom.
inside the house.
Zhong Ran glanced at Chengshuo.
Seeing the cautious expression on his face, he was no longer in a hurry to exchange items and just waited for Chengsheng to make a decision.
The latter thought for a long time and said slowly: "Before exchanging treasures, I would like to ask first: when exchanging treasures, in addition to taking away the things we agreed in advance, what else will the fishman elders take from us? ?"
"Look at what you said." Fishman Huabei said: "This kind of exchange means that the Great Elder will take whatever you say you want to take away."
"He will never take anything more from you without your asking, so you can rest assured."
Just clearly mark the price
Chengshuo nodded and continued to ask: "Furthermore, how many times can each of us exchange at most?"
"Twice." Fishman Huabei said: "Every monk who comes to the village for the first time has two opportunities to trade with the great elder. If he wants to trade again, he must continue to contribute to the village."
"Contribution?" Chengshuo said, "For example?"
Hua Bei said: "For example, the four Taoist friends in the house who serve the great elder, and then there are the fishmen who are cutting reeds and catching fish outside the village."
"If you offer fish and reeds to the great elder, you can get a certain amount of contribution."
"These contributions will be remembered by the great elder. After they are accumulated to a certain level, they can be traded with the great elder."
"At that time, you can choose to directly consume your contribution in exchange for treasures, or you can exchange it for other things."
"Okay, I understand." Chengshuo finally said: "So, is there any specific value for measuring this kind of transaction?"
"For example, if I want to trade a Kung Fu that suits me, how much do I need to pay to get this Kung Fu?"
"Just like the prices of the goods sold, if I want to trade skills, I must first know the specific price of the skills, right?"
"No, no, no," the fish-man Huabei corrected: "The transactions between us and the Great Elder are somewhat different from buying and selling items in a store."
"To trade with the Great Elder, you give him something according to your mood. It can be anything. Then, he will spit out treasures of equal value from his mouth based on the specific value of the thing."
"For this treasure, you can specify its scope in advance. For example, if you want a skill, the great elder will spit out the skill for you."
"If you ask for elixir, the great elder will spit out the elixir."
"Of course, this range cannot be too detailed, otherwise the great elder will not be able to understand and will spit out random things at you."
In the great elder's room.
After some explanations from the fishman Huabei, Cheng Sheng roughly understood the rules of trading with the fishman elders.
This rule is very similar to the 'lottery mechanism' in online games:
In short, if you give items to the great elder, the higher the value of the items you give, the more valuable the items spit out by the great elder will be.
As for what kind of item it will be in the end, it all depends on the face.
In this case, Cheng Sheng patted the storage bag on his waist and took out the mysterious porcelain bottle that could accumulate spiritual fluid and promote the birth of spiritual grass and spiritual plants.
There are two porcelain vases in existence.
One of them was picked up by him from a dry well in Shenshu Village.
The other one was obtained from the storage bag after Tieniu's death.
The spiritual liquid in the mysterious porcelain bottle can only assist the monks in the god worship period in their practice.
When the monk breaks through to the embryo-building stage, the auxiliary effect will be significantly reduced. When the monk reaches the blood elixir stage, there will no longer be any effect.
As for the role of spiritual grass and spiritual plants in promoting birth.
The monks in the Liang Kingdom did not know any method of refining elixirs, and there were no spiritual herbs or plants in the Liang Kingdom that could be used to refine elixirs.
So the inducing effect is also useless.
In addition, there are two surviving porcelain bottles.
In view of this, he planned to use this porcelain bottle to test the water and see what kind of treasure he could get from the great elder.
Chengshuo shook the porcelain bottle in his hand and said to the fishman Huabei: "I plan to use this porcelain bottle to exchange for things with the great elder. What will I do next?"
"Just briefly describe to the Great Elder what kind of items you want to exchange for." Hua Bei replied.
At the end, he added: "By the way, your description must not be too detailed, otherwise the great elder will not be able to understand it and will give you a random item."
So the great elder is not very smart?
Chengshuo's eyes show a thoughtful look.
After a brief hesitation, he said to the great elder: "I plan to use the porcelain bottle in my hand to exchange for a life-saving treasure."
finally.
The moment he heard the word 'exchange' from Cheng Huo's mouth, the great elder reacted.
Most fish have no tongues in their mouths.
Except for catfish.
inside the house.
The great elder stared at the porcelain bottle in Cheng Huo's hand. After a few seconds, he suddenly stuck out his tongue and swallowed the porcelain bottle in Cheng Huo's hand into his mouth.
Not long after this, the great elder made a retching sound from his mouth and stuck out his tongue again.
At this time, the porcelain bottle on his tongue had disappeared, replaced by a red and yellow leather lace.
Strange to say.
This leather frenulum was obviously spit out from the mouth of the great elder's catfish head, but when Cheng Xing touched it with his hand, he only felt that the surface was dry and not stained with any mucus.
Most of the treasures are psychic.
The moment he touched the treasure, Chengshuo understood the usage of this tie:
This lace can make the wearer shrink in size in an instant.
Using this treasure, the wearer can not only shrink to avoid the enemy's sight, but also avoid enemy attacks when fighting with the enemy.
Maybe it's because the porcelain bottle is not worth much.
The lace obtained through survival exchange is not a particularly powerful magic weapon.
However, this treasure really meets the requirements before survival.
——This is indeed a life-saving magic weapon.
And at the moment of exchanging this treasure, a doubt in Chengshuo's heart was finally confirmed:
The mysterious porcelain bottle in his hand was not his imagination.
This porcelain vase is indeed a treasure.
At least in the eyes of Elder Catfish
(End of chapter)
